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Emotion Quotes
"Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter."
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"Ester asked why people are sad."That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."
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"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
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"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
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"Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
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"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
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"I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Easier size."
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"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."
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"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all."
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"I can't sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You're always gone too soon."
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"Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions."
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"My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive."
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"There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
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"For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartfirewe give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us:you're in my blood, this room, Spring itselfis filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us,we vanish within him and around him."
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"Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning."
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"Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings."
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"I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion."
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"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them."
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"There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime."
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"Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends, but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own."
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"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness."
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"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
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"Take any emotion-love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions-if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them-you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment'."
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"Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world."
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"How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and clearness is there, maybe the result of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it."
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"Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame."
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